NI Maschine – Upcoming 1.8

The update will include the following improvements: – looks like the slicer will still be a bit dull, they should look at Geist from FXpansion how to use and process slices, anyway not bad to have time stretching – My personal comment 2 refering to my own performances: The LFO is still 18 Hz, which is far below standard, should be 100Hz minimum, and please add multicore support, after that there’s a lot improved, aaand – say you have a slice programmed to play and remove it in the chase…

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instant sample-to-synthesizer Reaktor Ensemble Skanner (free) algorithmicalizes samples

you need to register, but it’s free. this is a synth, that samples a sounds (looks like it is sort of algorithmically?) so you can say it instantly samples any sound and „converts“ it into something playable without being a real audio sample actually. sounds strange? the last time I heard about things like this was, when Technos Acxel Digital Synthesizer  was released – but does not look exactly like it – don’t know what „they“ have used (Stefan Schmitt, the founder of NI programmed it).  – so maybe try it out .. SKANNER  ok,…

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Smaller Maschine Mikro from NI + Update 1.7

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS :they have shrunken the Maschine: Mikro, they changed the display and size, may fit in nice in front of the macbook pro?.. the software upates to 1.7, my experience with standalone 1.6 was: freezing. so hope for better stability. 350€. So it’s about 200€ less compared to the bigger one. – In German this little Maschine should be called Maschinchen

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NI – Komplete 8, Kontakt 5, Mix (EQ,Compressor) & Real Drum Instrument like virtual drummer kind of stuff

Native Instruments releases Komplete 8 and Kontakt 5 soon (September). they also add a real drummer kind of instrument – so this includes recorded full loops but still hosted within Kontakt Player – so this may not be as „intelligent“ as the virtual drummer (Addictive / Easy Drummer) kind of plugins around called studio drummer – uhm, I’d really like some algorithmic kind of tool to be honest… – along this there’s EQ & Compressor pack called solid mix and transient master. so this is -like UAD – a mix…

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